勾
gōugòu HSK7

hook

勾 gōu frequency
hook verb
a hook or hook-shaped object

那只鹿用它的角勾住了男孩的衣服。

nà zhī lù yòng tā de jiǎo gōu zhù le nán​hái de yī​fu.

The deer hooked the boy's clothing with its antlers.

to evoke particleverb
to evoke; to induce or attract; to stir up feelings or memories
to cross out verb
to cancel; to cross out or delete by marking with a check or stroke

他们把他的名字从名单上勾掉了。

tā​men bǎ tā de míng​zi cóng míng​dān shang gōu diào le.

They crossed his name off the list.

to delineate
to draw an outline; to delineate or portray with a few strokes
to thicken
to thicken a sauce or soup with starch, meaning to thicken by mixing in a slurry
to collude
to collude; to conspire or link up with someone for an illicit purpose
to point
to fill in the joints of brickwork or masonry with mortar; to point
Gou
a Chinese surname
shorter leg
the shorter of the two sides containing the right angle in a right-angled triangle (in ancient Chinese mathematics)
to recruit
to recruit; to press into service; to enlist (often of soldiers in historical contexts)
勾 gòu
(bound form) business
(bound form) used in words like 勾当 gòu​dàng for business or shady dealings
enough
(archaic) enough; sufficient

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,034th most common 35.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,818th most common 26.5 per million appears in 14% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
10.2 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
13.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+52FE

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)